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Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Game Industry Introduction
Game Industry Introduction guides you to game industry essentials—from history and backgrounds to business, funding, market analysis, target audience tools, game design, and team building & budgeting—helping you find new areas in game development.
5 cr
Registration open
Online
The course is introductory course to game industry. It covers a bit of everything to setup mindset of the student to right angle.
It includes:
- History session that showcases how video games are just a part of millenia long continuum.
- Business introduction that highlights different approaches to game business
- Funding introduction that highlights different sources where to get money and what the financiers expectations are.
- Market analysis that gives tools to evaluate game ideas feasibility
- Target audience tools how to know in advance the most probable players for the game and science behind it.
- How to design games that deserve to be made, that have chances of attracting players and financiers.
- Team building and budgeting. What elements are important when building a team to make games and how much that team might cost.
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Fields
Information and communication technologies
Scope
5 cr
Code
TT00FD16
Organiser
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Contact details
avoinamk@metropolia.fi